I also cherish my nanosecond from meeting Admiral Hopper when she spoke at an
ACM chapter meeting many years ago.
If you are interested in computers and women in computing, I recommend the
many articles in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/annals on the
Thanks Howard! I spent some time wandering about the site. There is so much
there.
Linda
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From: Howard Turetzky howard.turet...@infoprint.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:50:39 AM
Subject: Re: Rediscovering WWII's female
Some history trivia
'Computer' was a job title, not a name for a machine at once a time.
This link is to a CNN article describing women who acted as 'computer'.
Title: Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers'
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/08/women.rosies.math/index.
html?hpt
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Some history trivia
'Computer' was a job title, not a name for a machine at once a time.
This link is to a CNN article describing women who acted as
'computer'.
Title: Rediscovering WWII's
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To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers'
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Some history trivia
'Computer' was a job title, not a name for a machine at once a time.
This link
Watch the wrap in the link
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Ken Porowski wrote:
Watch the wrap in the link
Oh, wrap me up! Thanks for wrapping up this... ;-D
I should really learn to wrap up my posts with that words...
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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Ken Porowski wrote:
Watch the wrap in the link
Oh, wrap me up! Thanks for wrapping up this... ;-D
I should really learn to wrap up my posts with that words...
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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